Path: utzoo!dciem!array!len
From: len@array.UUCP (Leonard Vanek)
Newsgroups: can.general
Subject: Re: solution to car phone problem (was Re: car fone)
Keywords: chasing ghosts
Message-ID: <53@array.UUCP>
Date: 13 Sep 89 16:01:12 GMT
References: <1989Aug30.104132.22252@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> <150006@teecs.UUCP> <1114@jtsv16.UUCP> <7669@microsoft.UUCP>
Reply-To: len@array.UUCP (Leonard Vanek)
Organization: Array Systems Computing, Inc., Toronto, Ontario, CANADA
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In article <7669@microsoft.UUCP> t-wader@microsoft.UUCP (Wade Richards) writes:
>The first reaction to car phones was clearly demonstrated here.  They are
>dangerous, and that they MUST cause accidents.

This was always my feeling.

>  I read this somewhere, I can't remember
>where, and if you don't trust me, good --- quote the stats that prove
>me wrong.
>
>There is NO evidence of car phone usage leading to accidents.
>
I also read this and I do remember where -- The Toronto Star. My
recollection is that the article actually said that cellular phone
users had a BETTER safety record.  Something about being especially
attentive BECAUSE they were on the phone.  However, I find this very
hard to believe. I am a skeptic when it comes to using newspapers as
the authority for anything.

I, too, would like to see someone conduct a study of the relationship
between cellular phones and traffic accidents in which the results are
presented quantitatively rather than qualitatively. They do it for
drunk driving, why not for mobile phones?

Len